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THE PRO-BARACK VOTE-FRAUD

Gino G — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:25:35 -0500

THE PRO-BARACK VOTE-FRAUD DRIVE
Posted: 4:34 am
October 8, 2008

SYSTEMIC corruption of our election process continues. Barack Obama and his old friends at ACORN and Project Vote are leading the way. This radical revolution is taking place in your backyard. And as I've reported before, this voter-fraud racket is on your dime.

On Monday, the two groups announced the wrap-up of a 21-state voter-registration drive targeting low-income people and minorities in such battleground states as Ohio, Pennyslvania, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico and Wisconsin.

What's wrong with that? For starters, these two groups are militantly partisan outfits purporting to engage in nonpartisan activity. And their campaign comes amid an avalanche of fresh voter-fraud allegations involving ACORN in many of those same states.

ACORN has helped register over 1.27 million people nationwide. It gets 40 percent of its revenues from the taxpayers, with the rest coming from left-wing heavyweights like billionaire George Soros and the Democracy Alliance.

Lefty lawyer Sandy Newman founded Project Vote, a 501(c)(3) organization, to register voters in welfare offices and unemployment lines with the explicit goal of turning back the Reagan revolution.

The two groups are inextricably linked - and at their nexus is Barack Obama. Despite his denials of any association with the group, Obama's political DNA is encoded with the ACORN agenda.

As I've noted previously ("ACORN: O's Ugly Ally," June 26), Obama trained ACORN members in Chicago. In turn, ACORN volunteers worked on his Illinois campaigns and ACORN's PAC endorsed him in this year's Democratic primaries back in February.

And Newman hired Obama in 1992 to lead Project Vote efforts in Illinois. The effort's motto: "It's a Power Thing." Today, the Obama campaign's "Vote for Change" registration drive is running in parallel with ACORN/Project Vote, targetting the same sorts of people.

It's an all-out scramble to scrape up every last unregistered voter sympathetic to Obama's big-government vision. "Our volume," Obama campaign manager David Plouffe bragged of the voter-registration program, "is going to be enormous."

Quantity over quality. That's the ACORN way - and the fraud allegations keep piling up:

* Yesterday, Nevada officials raided ACORN's Las Vegas office after election authorities accused the group of submitting multiple voter registrations with fake and duplicate names. Among the bogus monikers: names of former Dallas Cowboys players.

* Lake County, Ind., election officials this month rejected thousands of registration forms ACORN had turned in from its drives this summer. On a conference call yesterday, GOP officials noted that up to 11,000 of the applications were no good - tying up election officials and jeopardizing the voting rights of untold victims whose identities may have been stolen.

In what seems to be ACORN's standard operating procedure, vote canvassers had pulled names and addresses from phone books and forged signatures. According to a local paper (the Northwest Indiana and Illionois Times), "Large numbers of voter registration forms bore signatures all in the same apparent handwriting style" and "apparently the organization's canvassers broke rules to meet ACORN-set voter registration quotas to get paid." The fake registrants include dead people and underage kids.

* Milwaukee, Wisc., officials last month discovered at least seven felons employed as voter-registration workers for ACORN and another affiliated group. (State law bans felons from such work.) They also uncovered a raft of problematic voter-registration cards. The state GOP accuses the group of trying to get dead, imprisoned or imaginary people on the voter rolls. Fraud has plagued ACORN's Milwaukee chapter since the last election cycle.

* In Florida, in Orange County alone, ACORN workers turned in multiple, copycat forms for six separate voters over the summer. The Miami Herald reports: "One individual had 21 duplicate applications."

Election officials had flagged ACORN's negligent practices months ago. But it may be too late: In Orange, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, ACORN has signed up 135,000 new voters, nearly 60 percent of them registered as Democrats - a fifth of all new voters in that region.

* In Ohio, large numbers of homeless people got free van and bus rides to register. Shelby Holliday, a reporter for Palestra.net, filmed ACORN shuttling in some prospects. She told me she spoke with one homeless woman who said ACORN "told her who to vote for if she wanted a 'better life,' and told her not to worry about jury duty (one of the reasons this homeless woman didn't want to register) because the government probably wouldn't be able to track her down. She was registering with a temporary address."

Holliday interviewed another homeless man targeted by the registration drive who exulted that he was voting for Obama because "I want him to do his thang. You know, do his thug thizzle."

"Thug thizzle" is street slang for performing your trademark move. Obama and ACORN have practiced their thug thizzle together for years: Organizing an ever-expanding community of ineligible and marginal voters to expand the Democrat power base. Rules be damned.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10082008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_pro_...

McCain - He IS the problem.

twoputttommy — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:47:11 -0500

McCain - He IS the problem. McCain was in it up to his neck, as part of The Keating Five, as de-regulation resulted in The Savings And Loan Collapse.

And here's the YouTube with the former Federal Banking Regulator, talking about John McCain's role in The Keating Five and the S&L crisis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDofbll86dY&feature=iv&annotation_id=even...

Oh my goodness, Tommy, I

sd42webmaster — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:45:38 -0500

Oh my goodness, Tommy, I wish that were true.

The Republican Party has always stood for limited government, economic freedom, and personal liberty. But Republican LEGISLATORS often do not. Professional sports stadiums, medicare part D, bridges to nowhere, and massive bank bailouts -- are not examples of smaller government.

So -- I wish you were right -- about the Republican candidates being true to conservative ideology, but too often (and sadly) it is not true.

Maybe someday.

Mr. Pitzrick is his own man,

twoputttommy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:56:59 -0500

Mr. Pitzrick is his own man, Peter - and he's not my candidate. But, thanks for pointing out that DFL Candidates don't have to march lock-step with Party Ideology, as do GOP Candidates.

bigfoot, the simple facts

twoputttommy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:47:46 -0500

bigfoot, the simple facts that you're ignoring, is the Republicans held the US House from 1994 to 1996. They held the Senate almost as long. You had the Presidency, in the form of Bush The Lesser, who never veto'd a spending bill sent to him by Republican Lawmakers.

You can spin it all you want, but the problems in today's economy are the results of Republican policies, actions, and inactions. Period.

Reasonable people understand that, and that's why the electorate is going to reject republiconism on November 4th.

Putt Putt, you stated:

bigfoot — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:02:52 -0500

Putt Putt, you stated: "Today, the stock market opens below 10,000; it first went above 10,000 in 1999. Republicans have had control of The White House and Congress most of this decade; this decade has shown no economic growth - agan [sic], thanks to Republican policies."

By "stock market", do you mean the Dow Jones Industrial Average? Did you know that on January 4, 2007 - when the current Democratically controlled House and Senate took office - the DJIA was 25 percent higher than it is now?

If you want to point partisan fingers, then you should be blaming the likes of Pelosi, Obama, Biden and Klobuchar - and Democratic policies.

We finally got a response

sd42webmaster — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:16:43 -0500

We finally got a response from Pitzrick on the nuclear moratorium. He said:

"I would support lifting the moratorium on new nuclear power plants provided there is no additional above ground storage of waste at the Prairie Island Facility or in similar situations. The nuclear waste at Prairie Island is located in a floodplain along the Mississippi River. This is a risk that could be managed much more effectively."

Looks like even your own candidate has abandoned you on this one, Tommy.

In the 1970's, America first

twoputttommy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:27:30 -0500

In the 1970's, America first faced being held hostage by Arab Oil Producers. Remember gas lines? I do. And I also remember President Jimmy Carter saying we were being held hostage, and had to do something. At the White House, President Carter turned down the thermostat, put on a carigan sweater, and installed solar panels on the roof.

In 1977, President Carter also proposed a bold Energy Plan to reduce the stranglehold foreign oil producers could exert on America.

So, what happened?

In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected. Reagan moved into the White House, took his jacket off, turned up the heat, and ripped the solar panels off the roof.

Republicans have never been serious about alternative energy; they like oil and lots of it. Republicans like Nuclear because it has a huge price tag, but actually - once construction is over - employs few people.

In 1999, Germany enacted a 100,000 Roofs program - installing solar panels on 100,000 roofs. They had them by 2003, and it's been widely sucessful. And now, the cutting edge in solar isn't here, in the good ol' USofA, it's elsewhere. Thanks to Republican policies.

Today, there's a wind turbine blade plant in South West Minnesota; it's owned by a company from India.. A wind farm is being built in Sout West Minnesota; it's being built by a French company. A gear box manufacturer serving the wind maket is going to open in Faribault - the company is Finnish, not American. More thanks to Republican policies.

Today, the stock market opens below 10,000; it first went above 10,000 in 1999. Republicans have had control of The White House and Congress most of this decade; this decade has shown no economic growth - agan, thanks to Republican policies.

The failed Republican experiment is over, Peter. It's time for America for Americans. And that means solar, wind, and other alternative energy policies BEFORE nuclear energy - not after.

In order to believe that,

sd42webmaster — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:21:13 -0500

In order to believe that, you would have to believe that there are no Republicans who want healthy and safe communities or safe drinking water or want to make democracy work.

You would have to believe that every Republican on the planet wants health care to be unaffordable.

You would have to believe Air America is just mainstream radio and Karl Marx was just a philosopher.

These organizations are hostile to Republicans. They do not endorse Republicans. And they affiliate themselves with other groups that are hostile to Republicans.

Pitzrick embraces his endorsements by these groups but then turns around and describes himself in his literature as "NON-PARTISAN".

Who is kidding whom?

On the Clean Water Action

CentralLion — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:32:45 -0500

On the Clean Water Action home page, I see links to information about protecting America’s waters, global warming, new energy economy, making healthier and safer communities and making democracy work. On the home page, there are links to stories about rocket fuel in drinking water, fighting drugs in drinking water, defending the Clean Water Restoration Act, and energy issues. There is a link for recommendations in the 2008 elections, but it appears it is not their primary purpose. Their primary purpose seems to be focused on cleaner water in our environment.
http://www.cleanwateraction.org/

Here is the link to national site for Progressive Majority:
http://www.progressivemajority.org/
To me, Progressive Majority appears to be about electing people who will bring prosperity to everyone, protect civil rights, get everyone affordable quality health care, invest in quality public education, and protect our environment. Progressive Majority sounds like it is for progress in our country.

People should decide for themselves what they think about these organizations.

CL, I'll be glad to provide

sd42webmaster — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:30:20 -0500

CL, I'll be glad to provide proof for you. There are a couple of ways to identify if an organization is left, right, or center.

First of all, who do they endorse?

If you look at Clean Water Action's website, you discover that they endorse almost 100% liberal Democrats. Likewise, Progressive Majority endorses only Democrats (duh -- it's even in their name -- they are trying to achieve a progressive (ie. socialist, leftist) majority. These are not conservative groups.

A second way to tell where a group is coming from is to see what other organization they like to pal around with. If you Google "Clean Water Action" and "Progressive organizations", you will find events and coalitions that Clean Water Action is affiliated with. Groups like Naral, MoveOn.Org, Socialist Party USA, and the notorious Acorn who has been cited in several voter fraud cases trying to register nonexistent voters for Democrats.

The third way to tell which way an organization leans is to see what they support. Progressive Majority requires that people they endorse get 100 percent right on their questionnaire -- all very liberal policies. Clean Water Action also has an agenda -- no nuclear power, cap and trade that will cripple our state's economy.

These are far left organizations.

But it's okay. If Pitzrick would just come out and say: Hey, I'm a far-left wacko -- I would forgive him. I have friends who are liberal - there's nothing wrong with that. But instead he chooses to lie. On his literature he says he is "open-minded" and "non-partisan". On his website he says he HATES taxes.

No he doesn't-- he LOVES taxes. He LOVES bigger government. But he doesn't want the voters to know that.

Jenifer Loon is a fiscal conservative and that is why she is a better fit for this district than someone who is supported by radical far-left organizations.

Professional sports is a

sd42webmaster — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:27:29 -0500

Professional sports is a lucrative business and they have learned that, through extortion, threats to leave, etc. they can pretty much get what they want from their host communities. I'm sure you have seen stories about the battles that are going on across the country between taxpayers and their sports teams.

In Saint Louis, for example, the Cardinals are now suggesting that the local populace needs to supply them with an entire CAMPUS, not just a stadium. For, you see, a stadium is not enough. Not enough revenue. They need an entire shopping mall. Look for that to be part of the next wave of demands from the money-hungry sports owners.

And look for Minnesota DFLers (and fiscally irresponsible Republicans) to support it. We will get same old lines: "It's only X cents per $20 purchase!" "Vote YES for Minnesota!" "We don't want to be a cold Omaha!"

I have already shown you proof that they are a net MINUS for taxpayers -- I can provide more evidence of that if you need. What I'm trying to understand is how this squares with the supposed DFL concern for the underclass.

How can you justify taking away $1.1 billion from schools and roads and police and social programs in order to buy a stadium for a billionaire? How can you justify taking money away from a taxi driver who is working 60 hours a week just to feed and house his family -- and giving it to Carl Pohlad?

Team owners are demanding stadiums that are designed to generate the maximum profit. So they now have more and more luxury boxes. How many working class taxpayers will ever see the inside of these luxury boxes?

How is this going to help these people you say you know who are in debt and are, by your own admission, the reason you are a Democrat?

And how can you justify not even allowing people to vote on the issue? Every poll taken -- even ones taken by the liberal Star Tribune -- showed that if the Twins Stadium had gone to a referendum, it would have been soundly defeated (part of the reason, in my opinion, Neil Peterson was thrown out of office in Bloomington a month ago).

So, yes, especially on this issue, I believe someone like Jenifer Loon is more of a populist, much more representative of the will of Eden Prairie families, than her liberal tax and spend opponent.

Obama/

Gino G — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:31:15 -0500

Obama/ Rezko/Ayers/Wright
The conservative Judicial Confirmation Network is running a TV ad tying Obama to not just Rezko, but William Ayers (now using cartoons to spread his ideas) and the bombastic Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

"We don't know who Barack Obama would choose" as a Supreme Court justice, the ad says, "but we know this. He chose as one of his first financial backers a slumlord now convicted on 16 counts of corruption. Obama chose as an associate a man who helped to bomb the Pentagon and said he 'didn't do enough.' And Obama chose as his pastor a man who has blamed America for the 9/11 attacks."
Tony Rezko is not your typical middle American.
He’s Antoin Rezko, Muslim from Syria.
It is positively amazing, Guiness World Record worthy to note

How many times Obama’s path has accidentally stumbled upon Muslims.
His father and stepfather.
His half sister Maya , daughter of Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian Muslim.
All his college roommates were Muslims.
Both at Columbia and at Occidental College.
The same group of Muslims shepherded Obama on his grand tour of Pakistan.
His Kenyan relatives and those he campaigned for in Kenya-Raila Odingo.
And his financial patron-Antoin Rezko.
And that’s just the Arab Muslims.
The Black Muslims are another chapter.
As are ACORN and domestic terrorists.
Watch the video here:
http://www.theodoresworld.net/archives/2008/10/ad_about_obama_rezkoayers...

Obama Bomber AGAIN? The

Gino G — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:09:15 -0500

Obama Bomber AGAIN?
The crossed paths of Obama and ’60s bomber
By Scott Shane
updated 9:49 a.m. CT, Sat., Oct. 4, 2008

CHICAGO - At a tumultuous meeting of anti-Vietnam War militants at the Chicago Coliseum in 1969, Bill Ayers helped found the radical Weathermen, launching a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and United States Capitol.

Twenty-six years later, at a lunchtime meeting about school reform in a Chicago skyscraper, Barack Obama met Mr. Ayers, by then an education professor. Their paths have crossed sporadically since then, at a coffee Mr. Ayers hosted for Mr. Obama’s first run for office, on the schools project and a charitable board, and in casual encounters as Hyde Park neighbors.

Their relationship has become a touchstone for opponents of Mr. Obama, the Democratic senator, in his bid for the presidency. Video clips on YouTube, including a new advertisement that was broadcast on Friday, juxtapose Mr. Obama’s face with the young Mr. Ayers or grainy shots of the bombings.
In a televised interview last spring, Senator John McCain, Mr. Obama’s Republican rival, asked, “How can you countenance someone who was engaged in bombings that could have or did kill innocent people?”

More recently, conservative critics who accuse Mr. Obama of a stealth radical agenda have asserted that he has misleadingly minimized his relationship with Mr. Ayers, whom the candidate has dismissed as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood” and “somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know.”

A review of records of the schools project and interviews with a dozen people who know both men, suggest that Mr. Obama, 47, has played down his contacts with Mr. Ayers, 63. But the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called “somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.”

Obama campaign aides said the Ayers relationship had been greatly exaggerated by opponents to smear the candidate.

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Nightly News
“The suggestion that Ayers was a political adviser to Obama or someone who shaped his political views is patently false,” said Ben LaBolt, a campaign spokesman. Mr. LaBolt said the men first met in 1995 through the education project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and have encountered each other occasionally in public life or in the neighborhood. He said they have not spoken by phone or exchanged e-mail messages since Mr. Obama began serving in the United States Senate in January 2005 and last met more than a year ago when they bumped into each other on the street in Hyde Park.

In the stark presentation of a 30-second advertisement or a television clip, Mr. Obama’s connections with a man who once bombed buildings and who is unapologetic about it may seem puzzling. But in Chicago, Mr. Ayers has largely been rehabilitated.

Federal riot and bombing conspiracy charges against him were dropped in 1974 because of illegal wiretaps and other prosecutorial misconduct, and he was welcomed back after years in hiding by his large and prominent family. His father, Thomas G. Ayers, had served as chief executive of Commonwealth Edison, the local power company.

Since earning a doctorate in education at Columbia in 1987, Mr. Ayers has been a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the author or editor of 15 books, and an advocate of school reform.

“He’s done a lot of good in this city and nationally,” Mayor Richard M. Daley said in an interview this week, explaining that he has long consulted Mr. Ayers on school issues. Mr. Daley, whose father was Chicago’s mayor during the street violence accompanying the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the so-called Days of Rage the following year, said he saw the bombings of that time in the context of a polarized and turbulent era.
SCARY STUFF
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27018244/

Obama Illegal

Gino G — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:06:32 -0500

Obama Illegal contributions?
Republicans to file complaint against Obama
GOP alleges the Democratic candidate accepted illegal contributions
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27038128/
Smells like a duck, is a duck.

WASHINGTON - The Republican National Committee plans to file a fundraising complaint against Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign Monday, alleging it has accepted donations that exceed federal limits as well as illegal contributions from foreigners.

RNC officials acknowledged Sunday that they do not have a list of foreign donors to Obama's campaign. Instead, the complaint is based largely on media reports, including one from a conservative Web site.

The complaint asks the Federal Elections Commission to audit Obama's campaign fund, RNC chief counsel Sean Cairncross said in a conference call with reporters.
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Cairncross said little is known about many of Obama's donors because the campaign is not required to disclose detailed information about people who give less than $200.

The Obama campaign, which is not accepting public funds, has raised more than $468 million. About half has come from small donors, a point of pride for the Obama campaign.

The Obama campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.